Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms

How Digital Technologies are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age? This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to diverse perspectives and fuel polarization. Drawing on the ancient art of arguing all sides of a case, the book offers a way to revive public debate as a source of trust and legitimacy in democratic societies. This is a timely and urgent book for anyone who cares about the future of democracy in the digital era.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529238341

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Sine N. Just is Professor of Strategic Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.

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“Just delivers a compelling answer to the burning question of how to sustain meaningful encounters with difference in today’s communication landscape. Ancient ideas meet new imperatives in this fresh interdisciplinary take on what rhetoric can do.” Karen Lee Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Closing of the Rhetorical Mind2. Press Play: Organizing Digital Communication3. The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere4. Controversial Encounters of the First Kind: The Theory and Practice of Controversy5. Controversial Encounters of the Second Kind: Sweet Consensus and Nasty Conflict6. Controversial Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards Automated Persuasion?7. Affective Alternatives: Opening the Rhetorical Mind8. Make Disagreement Good Again